About

Les Ann Holland is a painter whose work has shown nationally in galleries including William Shearburn Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, Yares Art Projects and The Curators Gallery in Paris, France. She holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master’s Degree from University of New Mexico with experience in printmaking at Tamarind Institute. She is the recipient of a Phyllis Muth Scholarship for Fine Arts, the Harry Nadler Fellowship Award and the Marion & Kathryn Crissey Artist Award from Harwood Art Center in New Mexico. Selections from her solo exhibition Your Gold at SCA Contemporary in Albuquerque were curated by Los Angeles Times art critic David Pagel for Reasons, Excuses, Alibis & Non Sequiturs at UNM Art Museum. In addition, her oil paintings were filmed for "Madrigal," on AMC’s television series Breaking Bad. She is proud to have taught as a fellow at Vermont Studio Center, the Georgia O’Keefe Museum and at University of New Mexico. She lives and works in Minneapolis, where she teaches. Her works hang in private collections in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston and New York, London and Paris among other cities.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint to unearth metaphor and serve my communities as a visual artist and educator. My work seeks to develop a visual lexicon. Underwriting my drawing, painting, and printmaking is inquiry into the relationships between force and nuance, luminescence and concealment, tension and respiration. The work is non-objective and obliquely figurative, investigating architecture, landscape, position, scale, and most especially the resonance of color. I embrace the oddity and unpredictability that arise in creating regions unfamiliar to me. Abstract Expressionism and Modernism inform the mark-making and structural tension of my compositions, while Japanese printmaking and Chinese Monumental landscapes shape their spatial rhythm. My work aims to articulate a fascination with space and the forms which lend each environment its constitution and depth. Carved by line and organized by sequences of razing and stacking, my visual images house concrete and numinal regions, which serve to ponder the inscrutable.

If you are interested in collecting or commissioning a work, please email studio@lesannholland.com